Why Child Support Can Never Be Fair
Monday, August 22, 2011
Why Child Support Can Never Be Fair To Men
We've all heard the horror stories of the deadbeat dad's and the "poor victim's" a.k.a. single mothers'. We've all heard the complaint of how biased courts are against men or how child support is more likely "mommy support"and,a lot of this is true.Unfortunately there are many dads who just cringe at the idea of handing over hard earned cash to women who see the money as "payment deserved" and seldom see to it that those dollars are spent on the child/children directly. I would also say that there are a lot of dad's out there who just don't want to be responsible for their children,as if they not only divorced the mother but little Johnny and Suzie as well. The cases you seldom hear about ,are the mother's being the deadbeat parent and ,the father's being on the other end. Usually this is because the courts as well as most parents immediately presume when going into the divorce procedure that mom is the one playing the role of actually raising the children.This is changing more and more as new laws take a deeper look into the actual performance of parental involvement and ,whats being seen is more more dad's not only usually make a better income being able to provide a higher level of care,but they play a more active and responsible role in the child's lives when it's left up to them. i.e., mom makes a great babysitter but not so much a great parent. So with this in mind why can child support never be fair??Here's the situation, when a female has primary custody and seeks child support,the incomes and liabilities are taken into consideration.Fair enough!! When a male has primary custody the same is done in that case as well!! So wheres' the unfairness?? When a mother receiving child support remarries or lives with a partner with an income.That new income is not considered in most states towards lowering the amount of child support the father should be paying her!!! Why should it be ,they're not his kids ,and it could be said that the new partner is supporting the wife,while dad's and mom's money is supporting the children. But that's where it becomes unfair,if the paying father takes in a new partner,that person is a liability,a person to be financially supported.The extra cost of supporting that new person isn't accounted for in the formula towards child support.So no matter who actually has the kids ,mom always wins because even in today's society it's the female that must be supported and the male who must support.In short the mom can have an extra income without it counting as an asset even though it is one. However dad can't count the liabilities a new partner creates even though they exist.
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